Broken Vows: Tony Blair, The Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower review

Bower goes into detail about the pursuit of an open market by the Labour government, which allowed the purchase of many of the UK’s power stations by state-owned foreign companies – without any attempt at reciprocity. He also traces the surprising source of Labour’s open-door immigration policy to a junior minister, Barbara Roche, and an academic called Sarah Spencer. Their view, according to a passage serialised with glee by the Daily Mail, was that “immigration and multiculturalism brought positive good” and that there was therefore no need to keep numbers down.

My emphasis. I had always wondered what drove the desire for immigration. It turns out it probably wasn’t a desire for cheap domestic help and plumbers but a desire to do good. Hmm.